STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. OBJECTIVE To describe the readmission rate and identify risk factors associated with 30-day readmission after transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) surgery. METHODS Patients who underwent elective single level TLIF surgery from 2011 to 2013 were identified in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-...

PURPOSE The aim of this study is to evaluate long-term outcomes regarding readmission for laparoscopy-assisted distal subtotal gastrectomy (LADG) compared to conventional open distal subtotal gastrectomy (CODG) for early gastric cancer (EGC). METHODS Between January 2003 and December 2006, 223 and 106 patients underwent LADG and CODG, respectively, for EGC by one surgeon. The clinicopathologi...

BACKGROUND One in three patients hospitalised due to acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD) is readmitted within 90 days. No tool has been developed specifically in this population to predict readmission or death. Clinicians are unable to identify patients at particular risk, yet resources to prevent readmission are allocated based on clinical judgement. METHODS In participating hospitals, conse...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess re-hospitalization rates of individuals with psychosis and bipolar disorder and to study determinants of readmission. METHODS Prospective observational study, conducted in São Paulo, Brazil. One hundred-sixty-nine individuals with bipolar and psychotic disorder in need of hospitalization in the public mental health system were followed for 12 mont...

INTRODUCTION interventions to prevent hospital readmission depend on the identification of patients at risk. The LACE index predicts readmission (and death) and is in clinical use internationally. The LACE index was investigated in an older UK population. METHODS randomly selected alive-discharge episodes were reviewed. A LACE score was calculated for each patient and assessed using receiver ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To identify potential factors that place patients with cancer at risk for unplanned readmissions after discharge from the hospital. DESIGN Retrospective, descriptive, medical record review. SETTING A National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in an urban area of the Northeastern United States. SAMPLE 78 patients were selected from those readmitted ...

PURPOSE To assess the potential impact of early post birth discharge in Canada. METHODS Neonatal readmission was examined, based on hospital discharge data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information, with a total of 2,144,205 infants from fiscal year 1989/90 to fiscal year 1996/97. RESULTS Neonatal readmission rates increased from 27.3 per 1,000 in 1989/90 to 38.0 per 1,000 in 1996/...

BackgroundRisk factors for 30-day hospital readmission following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) have not been established. Recent studies have reported readmission rates after CABG ranging from 7.1% to 21%, and causes of readmission have varied in different studies. This study was conducted to evaluate probable risk factors of increased morbidity following CABG surgery during the first ...

OBJECTIVES Readmission and death are frequent after a hospitalisation and difficult to predict. While many predictors have been identified, few studies have focused on functional status. We assessed whether performance-based functional impairment at discharge is associated with readmission and death after an acute medical hospitalisation. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS We prospectively incl...

BACKGROUND Delivery of quality healthcare in resource-limited settings is an important, understudied public health priority. Thirty-day (early) hospital readmission is often avoidable and an important indicator of healthcare quality. METHODS We investigated the prevalence of all-cause early readmission and its associated factors using age and sex adjusted risk ratios (RR) and 95% confidence i...